Donna Green Couldn’t Find a Mental Health Facility For Her Daughter So She Started One

Stella Green Sanderson didn’t see her breakdown coming. “I just started to fall apart and I didn’t know what was happening or why it and things just became difficult to complete. I was paralyzed,” she tells CBC. She was suffering … Continue reading

Canada’s federal government is giving $2.9 million for a program to help veterans struggling with mental health problems to find jobs. The money is going to the Mood Disorders Society of Canada to help provide vets with skills training and … Continue reading

Researchers at Yale University have found that stress reduces the volume of grey matter in the areas of the brain responsible for self-control. So experiencing stress actually makes it more difficult to deal with future stress because it harms your … Continue reading

Santa Ono, president of the University of Cincinnati, stunned an audience by revealing that in his youth he twice tried to kill himself. In an interview with The Enquirer, Ono said he recovered from depression and he wanted to lessen … Continue reading

Although one in five students suffer from mental illness, schools often do not screen students for mental health issues. Even if students are successfully identified, many areas lack the community-based mental health treatment options that would be needed to help … Continue reading

James Pennebaker got married right out of college in the early 1970s. Three years after his marriage, he and his wife started to question their relationship, and Pennebaker sank into a depression. Embarrassed by what he saw as emotional weakness, … Continue reading

A government survey of more than 30,000 UK teenagers found that more than a third of teenage girls — almost twice as many as teenage boys — are suffering from symptoms of anxiety and depression. Sadly, this is not a … Continue reading

Nine-year-old Hannah Gorham loves to sing. She loves Carrie Underwood and reading Fancy Nancy books, and she adores Bear-y, the tattered stuffed animal blanket she has had since birth. And Hannah’s therapeutic savior might just be music, according to this … Continue reading

Although there is no literal translation, the Danish word hygge (pronounced hoo-ga) means a feeling of intimacy and contentment. It’s about creating feelings of happiness, friendliness and well-being, according to this article in Country Living UK. It’s about finding deeper … Continue reading

We can never have enough of nature. So writes Emily Deans in Psychology Today. She says it can be crucial for our mental health. Historically, a remedy for low spirits would be to send someone to the quiet of the … Continue reading